Update your MAC Clients to the latest Office 2004 version. This seemed to help a little bit with the problem. Essentially, the problem is there needs to be a .temporaryitems or whatever folder in EACH folder that a user saves to. If it is not there, they won't be able to save as properly...
Adding the ".temporaryitems" folder or whatever does resolve the problem. But who wants to copy and paste over 20000 folders on this server? Simply retarded. MS and Apple need to fix this...
I called MS support and tried opening up a report, but I got passed around like a 2 dolla whore and never got a call back from their "Professional" team. Seems to be MS knows about this issue and will not address it.
I appreciate your input greatly. The problem is, getting the users to understand this. This is, needless to say, one of my most uptight clients who REFUSE to change any habits. They feel everything should just work great for them no matter what. The problem is, they NEEDED to have a Windows...
It does only happen when opening from a server. Months later, still encountering this problem. I've contacted Apple and MS and both blame each other. Weird how that happens. The users now are just getting more bitchy so I need to come up with a solution :(
First here is the environment: Windows SBS 2003 not running ISA with
AFP and SMB shares enabled. Domain enabled and working properly as a
.local internal DNS. 10-15 OS X clients running the active directory
plugin loggin in and authentication to the domain just fine. Able to
access...
I'm not a total "noob" but maybe one step above when it comes to Macs. I'm a 2000/2003 MCSE and I work for a Consultant in Spokane, WA. I recently setup a network which has 15+ Macs OSX 10.4 and one Windows 2003 SBS Server. I managed to get the macs to authenticate and logon through the active...
First post... I'm not a total "noob" but maybe one step above when it comes to Macs. I'm a 2000/2003 MCSE and I work for a Consultant in Spokane, WA. I recently setup a network which has 15+ Macs OSX 10.4 and one Windows 2003 SBS Server. I managed to get the macs to authenticate and logon...